10/15/2012 (1620)

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Happy birthday Rita  Parisien Anderson (DHS ’73):  New Rockford, ND
                                          
                                              
 
Correction to yesterday’s picture. Robert Kofoid was Neola’s Uncle
From Neola Kofoid Garbe:  Bottineau & Minot, ND.
 
Hi,
 
Need to make a correction in your excellent description of Robert/Clifford’s relationship. Robert was Dad’s brother. 
 
 I was going to include the connection between Robert and Clifford when I sent the picture, but it was too late/my brain was too tired to figure it out! LOL!
 
Thelma’s mother, Anna Berg Slyter Halvorson (Ella Berg Christianson’s sister) was married to Andrew Halvorson, Clifford’s uncle, and her first husband (Slyter) died in the 1919 flu epidemic.
 
For my part, it gets even more interesting, as Clifford Halvorson was married to Alma Christianson (Casper/Ella Berg Christianson’s daughter).  Alma and Clarence Christianson were siblings.  Clarence married my aunt, Alvina Brudwick.  This means Clifford and Alma’s children, Arliss and Curtiss, are first cousins of Lois Christianson Roland (Clarence’s side of the family), who is also my first cousin (Alvina’s side of the family).  So you have the Halvorson’s, Christianson’s, Berg’s, Brudwick’s, Kofoid’s involved in the “larger picture”. :)
 
To go back a little farther, when my grandfather, Andrew Brudwick, moved his family to the Turtle Mts. in 1930, the second place they lived on was owned by Ella Berg Christianson/Anna Berg Slyter Halvorson’s parents.  It was the place where Sivert Berg (Ella’s and Anna’s dad) raised his family.  
 
All this was “off the top of my head”; there are probably more connections, too.
 
Neola
 
More of this saga. :)  Leona Slyter Johnson, who was married to Milford Johnson, had three sons: Johnny who is married to my girlfriend, Gayle; Jerry who died when the tractor he was driving rolled over near Carbury in about 1954; Ronnie who owns Cowboy’s in Bottineau.  These three boys and I share cousins, too.  Robert and Thelma’s children (Karine, Leland, Joanne) are Johnny/Ronnie’s cousins and my cousins.  There will NOT be a test on all of this!! LOL!!
 
Neola
 
Note: Clifford and Alma Halvorson were parents to Curt ’59 (Denise Quillinan ’63) and Arliss ’54 (Clayton Lider ’54).
Curt and Denise live on a farm in rural Dunseith and Arliss and Clayton live in Bottineau.  
 
 
 
         Debbie and Diane Fugere with their mother Donna Fugere
 
 
 
Posted by Neola Kofoid Garbe: Bottineau & Minot, ND.
 
Note: Jordan Metcalfe is Mary Eurich Knutson’s (’62) and the late Cliff and Lottie Metcalfe’s granddaughter. Jordan is also Vickie Metcalfe’s (’70) niece.
 
 
 
Joke of the day
Posted by Larry Hackman (’66):  Bismarck, ND
 
Ole is getting ready to celebrate his 50th anniversary and Sven says,
“Vhat are you going to do for
your anniversary?”

Ole says “Vell, for my 20th
anniversary I took Lena to Norvay”.

Sven says, “Dats nice, so vhat
are you going to do to top dat?”

Ole says, “I tink I’ll go pick her up.”